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The Plattsmouth Journal Official County and City Paper ESTABLISHED IN 1881 Published semi-weekly, Mondaya and Thurs days, at 409-413 Main Street, Plattsmouth. Cass County, Nebraska. RONALD R. FURSE Publisher FRANK H. SMITH Editor (on leave) HARRY J. CANE Managing Editor BERNARD A. WOOD Advertising Mgr. Helen E. Heinrich & Donna L. Rhoden Society - Bookkeeping & Circulation 7z3d4. ssocitTion A m m m. z n. SUBSCRIPTION RATE: $3.50 per year in Cass and adjoining counties, $4.00 per year elsewhere, in advance, by mail outside the city of Plattsmouth. By carrier in Platts mouth, 20 cents for two weeks. ICntered at the Postofflce at Plattsmouth. Nebraska as second tlffss mall matter In ac cordance with the Act of Congress of March i. 1S7. THOUGHT FOR TODAY Gallantry consists in saying empty things in an agreeable manner. La Roche foucr u EDITORIALS SCHOOLS FACE SERIOUS SHORTAGES The fortv-eight states of the Union spent $48,935,642,823 on their public schools last year. Leading states were New York, with '$575,000,000, and California with $460,000,000- Total operating expenditures went up about $300,000,000 but educational ex perts point out that much of the income represents rising costs for materials and other school supplies. There still exist a shortage of buildings and a shortage of teachers, especially elementary school teachers. According to a survey, recently con cluded by The New York Times, there are three million children who are receiv ing an impaired education. This total comes out of an enrollment of 25,666,337. The increase in school population last year was the largest in the past twen ty years, being nearly one million students. Moreover, indications are that school en rollments will grow for at least another ten years, with an estimated 32,000,000 pupils by 1960. The teaching shortage compels schools to employ 75,000 teachers on em ergency or sub-standard licenses. Every state reported an inability to get ade quately trained teachers, which means that many children receive a second-rate education. This is accentuated by the ser ious building shortage, which means double sessions in some areas and part time sessions in others. We call attention to the report be cause of the importance of the public schools in the development of democratic people and the maintenance of free in stitutions. Certainly, if our form of pol itical organization is to endure, the young er generation must be trained to apprec iate its significance and to understand the principles upon which it operates. PRACTICING PATRIOTISM The question of national defense leads to some interesting results. The industrial magnates talk volubly about the obligations of labor not to strike and the labor professors, not to be outdone, return the compliment by re marking about war-profiteering while la bor sacrifices. The attitude of labor and capital, in this instance, is equalled by that of other citizens who talk glibly about Americans making sacrifices for the national welfare without any idea that they should do like wise. Frankly, no man knows where events will lead this nation or what fate is in store for the American people. The chan ces are, however, that we can avoid mis fortune by practicing some of the patriot ism we profess before it is too late it it ANY "AVOIDABLE" ACCIDENTS? The people of the United State who liberally support drives against diseases of various types sit quietly and unconcern ed while thousands of citizens are killed every year on the highways of the land and, for some strange reason, take such casualties for granted- Autos crash and the injured and dead are buried under the wreckage but th'e investigation nearly always says that H was an "unavoidable accident." We can not recall an "avoidable accident" in this country for some time! This is a condition which should be corrected but how is it to be done? Should parties in a car crash be expected to pros ecute those in the other vehicle? Should prosecuting attorneys, highway patrolmen or police officers bestir themselves when accidents occur and diligently seek to assess guilt on the party who" may be to blame? Wc make the assertion, with some Furse's Fresh Flashes Woe be it to the fellow who reported no federal employees in Armstrong Coun ty, South Dakota. This oversight by New Dealers will be corrected soon and those responsible for such a situation transfer red to another department. A song to be popular must have an idea behind it, states a song writer. But he didn't say how far? There is a stern distinction between the woman who dyes her hair and the one who merely touches it up. Those "Soft Shoulders Dangerous" signs along the highways don't appear to be doing much good. There seem to be as many triangle cases as ever. Y hat a smart recruit doesn't know on his first furlough home, he can cover up as a defense secret. The main trouble with the human race is human beings. If you want to see a family that is held together and really alive, visit al most any farm home. A noted biologist says man's jaw is receding. It's probably because he has been taking it on the chin for so long. The boss is a man who is early when you are late and late when you are early. It won't be long until it's time to get out the old fishing rod. That, to most wives, is a pole with a worm on both ends. A woman never knows what kind of a dress she doesn't like until she buys it. confidence, that if automobile accidenrs were rigidly investigated, with blame as signed to guilty parties and prompt re vocation of driving licenses following, there would be fewer accidents and less lives lost. Nevertheless, in a country that has a population of more than 150,000,000 peo ple, with some million people being born every year, why should we worry about the loss of one hundred persons a day on the highways? DOWN MEMORYTaNE" I A YEARS AGO 11 John Latenser, Mayor Butler and members of the city commission from Omaha visited the city to inspect dock facilities at this point. They were shown through the warehouse by T. II. Pollock of the local Waterways committee of the Chamber of Commerce . - . Miss Helen Porter, Cass County Assistance Director received word that there would be eight CCC enrollment periods during 1941 in stead of the usual four . . . Frank E. Wood of Weeping Water was appointed as superintendent of the I.O.O.F. Home at York, Nebraska, effective March 1, 1941 . . . The Public Library was in re ceipt of the gift of an autobiography of the late Arthur F. Mullen, from " his brother. ' OA YEARS AGO Nebraskans contributed $5,106,460. 95 to the total income taxes of $2,332,968, 393 collected for the calendar year 1930, being $169,837,36,1 less than the previous year . . . George E. Rebal who since his graduation from P.H.S. in 1927 has man aged a Piggly-Wiggly store at Omaha was promoted to their store at Cedar Rapids. Iowa ... As a result of the unusually balmy weather prevailing a great deal of farm plowing was under way, a rarity in Nebraska in January . . . The work" of Charles E. Hartford Jr., a graduate of Iowa State college, engaged in the man ufacture of cornstalk products, attracted national attention. VMM FUNNY BUSINESS By Hershberger yf W rouisr ;i pill l r . "H u 'ii COM 14 Y HI SFKVICf INC T M KF5 O S FAT. OF 1 1 I ll r-!?S-K "They both claim they had tho rfcht o'f way!" (Copyright, 1949, By the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) DREW PEARSON SAYS: EISEN HOWER NOT TOO HAPPY OVER DONNING UNIFORM AGAIN, FAC ING HOSTILE CROWDS OVER SEAS; KNOWS JOB AS SHAPE COMMANDER CAN BLAST ANY . PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS; HIS HATRED OF WAR IS GENUINE. (Ed. Note The brass ring, good for one free ride on the Washington Merrv-Go-Round, today goes to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who now reports to Congress un nit; uimcuit ot rearming Europe.) -Washington. When General Eisen hower went off to Europe, a lot of people got the impression that he was rather glad to leave Columbia, get into uniform again and return to his old haunts abroad. Actually, this was not the case. i c T, a few closo frieds just before he left, Ike confessed that he dreaded going overseas again, knew that he would face hostile crowds, realized how touh it would be to organize rearma ment in war-weary Europe. Ike also knew?. though he didn't say so. that getting back into uniiorm might blast any presidential ambitions he had. There was nothing phony or theatrical, therefore, about ike's answer when President Truman called him in Chicago last De cember and asked him to be come Chief Commander under the North Atlantic Pact. Ike replied that a soldier has to go where he is called, and he meant it. Report To Congress Behind Eisenhower's report to Congress this week will be two significant facts which the general public may not at first appreciate. No. 1 is that the President has partially abdicated to Eis enhower the national leadership in regard to European policy. It will be uo to Ike to sell Con gress and the nation on send ing U.S. Troops to Europe at a time when isolationism is grow ing and when thousands of mothers do not at all relish see ing their sons leave home. No. 2 is the fact that Eisen hower, though trained as a mil itary man. has now become a political figure. Furthermore. Eisenhower's po litical development is bound to accelerate; for his job of weld ing different nationalities into a smooth-working military mac hine is much more political than military. For some time. Ike's critics and he has some have harped on his y political proclivities. Long ago, they claim. Ike learned that the pen is mightier than the word. And it was Ma jor Eisenhower, thev recall, who wrote General MacArthur's farewell message to the Armv when Mac retired as Chief of Staff one of the most appeal ing documents ever issued by a Chief of Staff. POLITICAL GENERAL And though they criticize Ike for having been a political gen eral during the invasion of Eu rope, it must be remembered that one of his jobs was to smooth the ruffled feathers of General Giraud, get the coop eration of the difficult General De Gaulle, tone down the pas sion for publicity of Field Mar shal Montgomery and weld the heterogeneous, politically mind ed armies of Europe into a ho mogeneous unit. One thing that griped some Americans, for instance, was Ike's order that there was to be no criticism of the British dur ing and after the D-Day inva sion of Normandy. He also placed a British officer along side each American officer in key jobs where cooperation was essential. This may have slowed military movements at times but it built allied harmony which was all-important. This is some of the invaluable experience Eisenhower will draw on when it comes to the pres ent peacetime mobilization of Europe. IKE HATES AVAR Another quality that will help the North Atlantic Pact com mander is the fact that his hat red of war i's just as genuine as that of the yar-weary Euro peans who now dread preparing f,r another showdown. Prob ably Ike gets this from his moth er, a descendant of a Swiss-German family which fled Europe to escape its wars. Mrs. Eisen hower never relished the fact that her son became a soldier and once, when Sam Goldwyn congratulated her on her son, she promptly replied: "Which one?" For Mrs. Eisenhower was jus as proud of her other six sons as of the one whose name is a by word around the world. "War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly," Eisenhower once told a West Point gradu ating class. "To seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of warrior you do so in the spirit of Washington not of Genghis Khan. "As a protessional soldier you do not inherit a greater share than your citizen brothers of courage, endurance, and forti tude. Neither does your com mission confer upon you dis tinctive right or privilege . . . The arts and sciences, as well as the profession of arms, are bul warks of society. And the great est of all is the spirit the will for freedom and justice." These remarks, coming from the man against whom the Communists have been demon strating in the streets of Rome and Paris, probably would aston ish the average European. How ever, they represent the creed of the man who now7 faces the difficult task of mobilizing the North Atlantic Pact countries for democracy. EISENHOWER-GO-ROUND As a schoolboy in Abilen?. Kans., Eisenhower was called "Ugly Ike" . . . His father was a Democrat, and Ike's first speech was at a Jackson Day dinner. Because he was a Democrat, Ike I had a little difficulty getting an appointment to West Point, but finally obtained the endorse ment of the leaders of both wings of the Republican party in Abilene . . . The Eisenhower high-school gang used to hang around the office of the Abilene News where they did odd jobs for Editor J. W. Howe and where young Ike read exchange news papers. According to Howe: "Dwight never complained about working, seeming to take that for granted. In school discus sions he was always for the un derdog and contended we need ed a somewhat better distribu tion of wealth." REMEMBERS WEATHER ALVA, Okla. UP When Steve A. Stech. 88-year-old weather observer here, says it was hotter or colder "way back in," you can take his word for it. He's been on the job at the weather bureau here since 1911. and remembers first-hand the record high temperature of 120, July 18, 1936, and the coldest day on record, Feb. 8, 1933, when the mercury dipped to 16 below zero. YOUTH PROGRAM MURRAY, Utah (UP) Con tractor Jay Davis believes he's got evidence that a self-administered youth recreation pro gram, can go too far in its en thusiasm. Neighborhood chil dren wanted a place to swim. The youngsters spotted six houses Davis was building with cement basements. They flood ed the basements and have been I swimming since. IIS Mm . . . ' , " 1950 Etna Casualty & Surety Co. Legislative Sidelines by BERNIE CAMP Information Director Nebraska Farm Bureau (Legislative Sidelines is made available to your local newspaper as a service of the Nebraska Farm Bureau Federation. Opin ions expressed are not neces sarily those of this newspaper). A Highway Commission Among the first bills intro duced to the 1951 session of the Nebraska legislature were two to provide reorganization of the State Highway Department. Bills No. 2 and No. 3 dealt with meas ures designed to improve the efficiency of one of the biggest agencies in state government. Legislative Bill No. 2 was in troduced the first day over the signatures of Senators Arthur Carmody, Trenton, and Hugh Carson, Ord; and provides for the establishment of a Nebras ka Highway Commission of five members. The bill also provides for a full-time highway direc tor who would be paid $7,500 a year from highway cash fund and appointed by the governor. He and the governor would be ex-officio members of the com mission. The five commission ers, one from each Congression al district and one at large, would be appointed by the gov ernor. Commissioners would be appointed for four-year stag gered terms. They would re ceive $20 a day when in session; and not to exceed $1,200 a year. The .state highway engineer would attend all meetings of the commission and submit reports on highway department activi ty. Proceedings of the commis sion would be open to public in spection. The duties of the commission would be: 1) to devise and adopt standard highway plans; 2t to investigate highway conditions; 3) to assist the state engineer in making plans and surveys and in allocating funds; and 4) to make recommendations on the locations of state highways. The second highway bill (LB 3) also was introduced the first day of the session by Senators Carson and K. W. Peterson, Sar gent. Senator Peterson is serv ing his first term. This bill pro vides for separation of the high way and irrigation activities of the State Department of Roads and Irrigation; and the setting up of two separate departments. In submitting LB 3, Senator Carson suggested the possibility of even further separation in the highway department. He termed the four functions of the department highways, irriga tion, motor vehicles and safety patrol too much for a single agency. As the bill now stands, motor vehicle and safety patrol divisions would be left in the highway department. The Senator also said as he introduced the bill that the highway department is "Too big and cumbersome: it's topheavy. ' Prospects lor Increases Many a Nebraska taxpayer is wondering these days what an swers the legislators will find to the knotty financial problems facing the state for the next biennium. Some hint may be gleaned from the general attitude of the legislators and the list of ap pointments to the very impor tant Budget and Revenue com mittees. Senator Arthur Carmody, Trenton, is chairman of the Budget committee. He has. ex pressed the feeling that an in crease of about 15 to 20 per cent will be needed in state income during the next two years to meet the minimum costs of pro viding the service taxpayers de mand. Senator Carmody docs not have the reputation for be ing a "wild spender" when it comes to setting up state ap propriations. His opinions then must be well-considered as a reasonable assessment of the situation. Senator Charles Tvrdik, Oma ha, is chairman of the Revenue committee. He is known to be an opponent of new tax forms and an advocate of economy in government. He believes in holding the line on expenditures of state government. It is not likely that the Revenue commit tee under his chairmanship will depart very far from that phil osophy. These two able senators may appear at first glance to be op posed in their views but actually there is no great difference be tween the two in their philoso phy on state government econ omy. Furthermore, the two chairmen are rather typical of the sentiment of most senators in favoring the "holding of hie line" wherever possible; and favoring increases in state ex penses only after thorough ex amination and study of the sit uation. Most of the 43 men in the 62nd session of the Nebraska legisla ture realize that property own ers through the real estate tax are bearing a disproportionate share of the tax burden; and that real and personal property taxes are at their minimum. The only possibility then would seem to lie in the creation of new tax sources. With the temper of the legislature generally opposed to new tax forms, only the pres sures of increased demands that can be met in no other way will force their consideration. The 1951 legislature will avoid the sales or income tax, unless one or the other or both are found to be absolutely essential to; solve the state's financial prob-.; lems. i THE PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, SEmt-WEEKLY jourirfAi, PAGE FOUR Monday, January 29, 1951 ii Centering of Thought Conquers Fear 1PDGA11 DARRELL, Albuquerque, New Mexico, tells us a story that proves if you have something, or someone, on which to center your thoughts you will be helped in conquering your fear. In his case it was an animal that he grew to love. His father homesteaded some land near Cuba, N. M., up near the Continental Divide, and then went broke. He decided to go back to Albuquer que from whence he had come. He made arrange ments to take his wife, his daughter and his younger son, but someone had to stay on the homesteaded land for a time to look after his interests until he could get settled in new sur roundings. That someone was Edgar. Edgar vus 11 years old! Carnegie As his father hitched up the horses the next morning, he said he would leave the Cog with Edgar to keep him from get ting lonesome. But when they started to drive away, the little sister began to cry for the dog which she considered hers. So Edgar turned the do loose to follow the i'aauly. Now he was nil alone! It wasn't so bad in the daytime, though it was bad enough But at night it was terrible. Hg would push the furniture up against the doors and crawl into bed shaking with fear. In the morning when he awoke his night garment was damp from cold perspiration. One morning he crose and went to the ranch of a neighbor, an eld . man, and told him how frightened he was to stay alone. The old man asked "How old are you9" When Edgar replied "Eleven years," his old friend said "Well you're a man now and ycu need a horse and a Bible of your own- but they must be given to you for it would be bad luck to buy them " Then he gave him a little bay mare, which he said would be better than a watch dog. Every right Edgar staked the little mare near his door, and loft her grain to eat then he would go off to sleep listening to her munching. lie found if she heard another horse or cattle she would nicker at them. Yes, she was belter than a dog. And she was company. He had her with him all day, to think about, to pat and to curry. She liked him, and the days were net so lonely. One night the little mare made an awful fuss. Edgar get out of his bed so quickly that he hardly touched the floor on his way to get his gun. The mare kept munching grass but looking toward the south constantly. Finally a figure emerged from that direction; Edgar pointed his gun at a man on the road coming toward him. Wnen within 50 feet, the man called, "Anybody home?" Edgar kept the gun pointed and didn't reply. Then the man called again, "For God sake if anybody's home, answer me I need help." ' Still fri-htened. Egar answered. He asked the man's name and his business, and he learned that the man had been hunting when his horse had thrown him and left. Edgar gave him aid and he spent tho night. Then, with his little filly to think about and care for, and to be grateful to as a watchdog, he was no longer frightened. He had a friend with him. 51. SV'4 and W'-SDVi, G-ll-14. S25.4CC. Arlie W. and Lenora V-cc.-.i to the Federal Land Bank 51, W 1 2 NW 1 1 3 and E1 .'; , 4-11-11, S1C.00C. Laura C. Radtke to FIa:s-1 mouth State Bank, 1-15-51. N 110 L. 1 & 2. B. 6. L. & N 110 L. 8 & 9 B. &, Latta-Murray, Sl 5C0. Thomas and Gladys R. 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Troop to Itober: A. and Nellie Troop. 1-2- PERHAPS IF WE KNEW early in life that healthy personality development, or character as we like to call it, is a lifelong process of growth we wouldn't worry so much in youth about our inade-. quacies. That is why the outline of the recognized steps in person ality development, cor.tamed m the fact-finding report of the Mid- century White House Conference on Children and Youth, is such a valuable contribution to parents seeking to guide their children to ward successful adulthood. First, to review the earlier steps, we have the infant's need to acquire a sense of trust; then the toddler's need to prove that he has a mind and a will of his own this lat ter is called a sense of auton omy. The four and five-year-old should develop a sense of Initiative, so important in our culture. If these three steps are taken in early childhood, the advent of school years, in stead of posing difficulties for the child, will be a happy time in which he can acquire the next and fifth attribute of per sonality growth, a sense of ac complishment. During adolescence two more steps must be taken if there is to be a sound personality basis for approaching adulthood. The first is the sense of identity, of there j being continuity and meaning to j life, something to taKe noia 01 j and believe in. The cthor, the j sense of intimacy, is the flowering j of the earlier sense of belonging, i and includes the ability to mcke 1 friendships, to love others ar.d to j respect himself. ' With adulthood comes normally the parental sense. Perhaps this is best described as the beginning of the ability to "lose one's life in order to find it." The steps so far have been largely building up the individual's sense of personal worth. Now the healthy pattern is to look upon oneself as the pre server and guide of other lives, usually one's own children, though this sense of responsibility for others, of giving more than get ting, can be expressed, and mag nificently so. bv the childless. Finally there comes the sense of integrity, the ripen ing of character whereby we accept ourselves and try to make a contribution to eur world even when we recognize it as faulty. Yet, there is also the philosophy of hope where by human personality can be salvaged. The fact-finding re port of the While House Con ference states it admirably aa follows: ' Even in adulthood a reasona bly healthy personality is some times secured in spite of previous misfortunes in the developmental sequence. New sources of trust may be lound. t crtunate events and circumstances may ; aid the individual in his struggle to fci : autonomous. Invagination and initiative may be spurred by new responsibilities, and feelings ft in feriority may be overcome by successful achievement. Even late in life an individual may arrive at a true sense of who he is and what f he has to do and may be able to win through to a feeling of intima cy with others and to joy in pro ducing and giving." - i